PRODUCERS CLUB AND CINEMAS
358 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
Friday, April 4, 2025
Each Film Block $20
All Day Friday Pass $40
Tons of Popcorn!
Block 1
Visionary and Experimental Sci Fi
245pm- 4pm
Apollo 11 Dream, 2023
Director Alain Thibault
Canada, 18 min
Inspired by the unconventional form and pacing of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the dreamlike and unconventional storytelling of Lynch and Japanese Noh theater, Apollo 11 Dream is asking the question: did the astronauts return to earth, or did they remain on the moon,
The Dance of the Nain Rouge, 2023
Director Eric Millikin
United States, 3min
The Dance of the Nain Rouge” is an experimental decolonial Detroit demonology deepfake dream dance documentary, based on the legend of the Nain Rouge (“Red Dwarf") of Detroit.
OZYMANDIAS 2500 A.D.
Director John du Pre Gauntt
United States, United States , 3 minutes
Ozymandias 2500 A.D. fuses poetry, music, and AI visuals to transform Percy Bysshe Shelley's 19th century allegory into a contemporary music video. Set in a futuristic Las Vegas reclaimed by the desert like a forgotten city of the Silk Road, the film probes how time erodes the myth of absolute power. An evocative music soundtrack drives narration and AI visuals to transport the audience into a surreal world, where a despot's hunger for acclaim grinds a metropolis to dust
Absorber of the Supreme Sun, 2024
Director Claus Arthur Breda-Gulbrandsen
Norway, 9 min
Absorber of the Supreme Sun is a visceral film that deals with the ebb and flow of time, space, emotions, biology, and physics. The film is an experimental film with music that attempts to convey certain non-verbal notions about the hidden structures in human behavior, memory, evolution, and our search for a higher meaning in a world in turmoil
Intruders, 2024
Director Jan Locus
Belgium , 10 min
In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus uses found footage black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s
Telepathic Letters/ HP Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa , 2024
Director Edgar Pêra
Portugal. 70 min
Howard Philips Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the first half of the XX century. Pessoa and Lovecraft did not know each other despite having lived at the same time, but there is a huge complementarity between their lives and works. TELEPATHIC LETTERS is a film, whose images were created exclusively through Animal Intelligence, in which a dialogue is established between his letters and essays, poems and fictions, an imaginary correspondence between the two authors, made exclusively from their texts, forming a new universe of artistic and literary possibilities, merging the Sensationism of Pessoa with the Weird Realism of Lovecraft.
Q&A after the Block
Block 2
International Sci-Fi Shorts
4pm-6pm
Verflechtung, 2024
Directors Philip Hofmänner, Simon Jonas Pflanzer
Switzerland, 18min
In the near future, Susana's fiancé Marco decides to have a chip implanted in his brain.Marco, who suffers from severe depression and has professional problems as a result, sees this new technology as his only chance, not to lose touch. Susana, who originally drew his attention to the chip, soon begins to have doubts,
Bug, 2024
Director Filip Momirovski
North Macedonia , 10 min
An unemployed cellist turned software tester, tries out a smart speaker that generates music based on the listener's feelings. Things take a turn when the speaker blares ominous sounds in the middle of the night
The Fourth, 2022
Director Johnny Kirk
United States, 10 min
Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.
Portti , 2024
Director Tuomas Järvenpää
Finland , 10 min
A satirical sci-fi short film about the encounter between a frustrated man and an advanced artificial intelligence. The AI offers the man a new alternative. A tale of human curiosity, greed, and the coldness of artificial intelligence
The Shaver Mystery, 2024
Director Dean Bertram
United States, 14 min
Was sci-fi writer Richard Shaver really abducted and tormented by a malevolent underground race of hideous humanoids, known as the “Dero”? Regardless, his “true” stories – known collectively as “The Shaver Mystery” and sometimes ghost written by editor Raymond A. Palmer
Demons, 2023
Director Adesh Prasad
India, 15 min
A man shares a newly found 'cure' to help his friend get rid of what haunts him. The haunting does stop, but at a gruesome cost
Ovo, 2023
Director Stiv Spasojevic
in Best Animation
France, 6min
This is the story of a meeting between an astonishing robot from outer space and an adorable little bird just hatched from its egg…
Factory Drop, 2024
Director Petja Pulkrabek
Germany, 15 min
In a bleak future in the year 2118, a gigantic skyscraper called the Factory rises above the ruins of the old world. In the dark lower floors, forced laborers toil tirelessly to produce diamonds. Emotions and contact are strictly forbidden.
Q&A after the Block
Block 3
Japanese Sci-Fi
WHO SAID DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL?
6PM-715PM
Who said death is beautiful?
Director Ryo Nakajima
Japan, 78 min
In a zombie-infested Japan, Rika, an infected intern, cares for genius Rei and sister Yuna. Yuna turns zombie; Rika and Rei flee. Rika suggests escaping abroad with Takashiba for hope; Rei wants to return home. At Rei's, they face a transformed Yuna's confession
Block 4
Sci-Fi and Supernatural Shorts
715pm-930pm
Chthonic (Teaser), 2025
Director Tremayne LaMont
United States, 5 min
Hearing chatter and gossip. Hearing light whispers leaving sensual lips. They are doing this, they are doing that. They say this happened at night. They say that happened on this fateful day. All these rumors and old wives' tales. That what they say. Whispers coming from the underground. Riding the wind saying something that might be profound
Deepheist, 2024
Director Glen Vivaris
United States, 10 min
Four activists race to steal the program of the first A.G.I. CEO.
Fiddler’s Green, 2024
Directors Harrison Heller, Tommy Kraft
United States, 15 min
At a rest stop bar in the middle of nowhere, a mysterious proprietor helps a guilt-ridden man reckon with his choices.
Salamander: A Mystery
Director Gabe Sentlinger
Canada, 10 min
Erik Fisher is living in his van down by the river. Without much going for him, besides his 2-4 listeners on his streaming radio show, NightShades, his life is turned upside down when a mysterious stranger delivers a package containing a toy Salamander with a note signed “Mom”.
Concrete
Director Eli Vidis Newman
United States, 15 min
In an alternate version of 20th century America, all citizens are subject to government-issued neurological implants which they are told prevent their heads from exploding. When Arkady, the lone caretaker of his ailing mother, has his implant forcibly removed by an unknown assailant– his reality begins to collapse and he scrambles to find answers
Starring:
Ed Harris Westworld, Apollo 13, Glengarry Glen Ross
Sophia Ali Uncharted, The Wilds, Grey's Anatomy
Frankie Quinones This Fool, The Dress Up Gang
Henry Fulton WinshipK "Arkady" Actual People
The Girl who walked on Snow, 2024
Director Bruno Carnide
Portugal, 3 min
In a distant place, the saddest of girls carries within her a darkness feared by all.
Bad Seed, 2024
Director Karan Sridharan
India, 6 min
A man meets his maker and doesn't like what he sees.
Interference, 2024
Director Lila Woodbridge
United States , 25 min
"Interference" tells the story of one teenage boy’s struggle with paranoia and identity amidst the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s
Stephan’s Computer Parts
Director Ari Aleksander Miller Miller
United States, 11 min
A lonely owner of a computer store seeks to physically connect to the internet via self surgeries. Along the way he meets a writer, who becomes witness to his ultimate project
Jirba, 2024
Director Sebastian Gonzalez
United States, 16 min
Based on the short story "Piper in The Woods" By Philip K. Dick, Dr. Henry Harris, is an alienated industrial therapist who works for an interstellar water bottle company. Harris is sent to investigate a strange phenomena happening at one of the company's filtration facilities on the moon of Jirba
Monster, 2024
Director 乔 乔治
China, 10 min
A zombie apocalypse plagues Beijing
The Last Zombie,2022
Director Adam J. Vaughn
United States, 10 min
At the conclusion of a zombie apocalypse, a lone zombie wanders the planet, isolated and threatened by every human in sight. When Nova, the last zombie, comes across a little girl who knows no fear, the two form an unlikely - and tragically short lived - friendship
Second Harvest, 2023
Directors Victoria Gayer, Naythan Smith
United States. 5 min.
A grieving widow attempts to renegotiate a corporate contract that set the terms of her husband’s burial
Rodent, 2024
Director Joe Fereday
United Kingdom, 8 min
A rat transports us through the last vestiges of humanity as it forages for food for its family. Confronted by a formidable threat, we discover the true magnitude of recent global events.
Q&A with Directors, Producers and Actors after the Block
Block 5
Feature Presentation:
THE LAST NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF DEATH
New York Premiere
930pm-11pm
The Last Night in the Life of Death, 2024
Director Isaiah Brody
in Best Psychedelic Sci Fi, Horror, Magical Realism Feature
US, 79 min
Every night, Death comes to take care of people who move on from here to forever. But this night - tonight - something has changed, and Death is confronted with the possibility that there is no longer any use for his kind. Through seven encounters, Death begins to understand his true fate
Q&A with Director after the Block
Block 6
Documentary
THE MONSTER MAN
11PM - 1145PM
The Monster Man, 2024
Director Roger Christopher Stevens
United Kingdom, 45 min
There are many talented designers in the world creating the diverse and incredible range of alien creatures and monsters we see in top films and television series.Tragically, many famous monsters have been treated poorly by museums and broadcasters, degraded and rotting, they’ve been lost forever!A life-long fan, NEIL COLE has made it his mission to save everything possible … and he created The Museum of Classic Sci-Fi to achieve this.